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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bing Adds 2D Barcodes and Grabbing Text
For a recent study I compared Redlaser and ShopSavvy smartphone barcode readers for on shelf use. I notice today that Microsoft has added a 2D barcode reader...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Brands as Media Properties
In Brandweek: Unilever says that brands must be turned into media properties via content.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
A Wednesday News Roundup
Lots of interesting stories touching on computing research in The New York Times and Time magazine in the past couple weeks: - Feb. 28 –
From The Eponymous Pickle
Febreze Reaches Billion Dollar Mark
Commentary regarding the Febreze benchmark on the Brand Channel. A Billion dollars in sales for a quite simple concept.
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Top 10 Reasons Why You Should Attend (or Should Have Attended) SIGCSE
Top 10 Reasons Why You Should Attend (or Should Have Attended) SIGCSE 10. It has a long tradition (42 years to be exact!) of bringing together people from all...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Problems with Mobile Location Data
A thoughtful interview post on issues that occur with mobile location data. " ... Between identifying relevant and accurate data sources, harmonizing data from...
From Computational Complexity
Les Valiant wins the Turing Award
In a definite case of when not if, Leslie Valiant will receive the 2010 ACM Turing Award, the highest honor in all of computer science. Valiant has done incredible...
From Putting People First
Sitra
Last week Experientia participated in Ecobuild 2011 (London, UK) to showcase its work in user-centred sustainable design for the built environment, and in particular...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2011-03-09
'No sysadmin' is the key to Freedom Box "The Freedom Box project will succeed or fail on whether it works "without sysadmin". If only trained sysadmins can figure...
From Schneier on Security
Malware as Job Security
A programmer installed malware into the Whack-a-Mole arcade game as a form of job security. It didn't work.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CS Principles AP Course Pilots Wanted
As many of you know there is a new AP CS course, APCS Principles, under development. A second round of pilot courses is planned for next school year and the program...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Computing Beyond Mathematics
An interesting viewpoint article in ACM. In one way this is quite obvious, computer science has gone far beyond mathematics ... far beyond just 'computing'Computer...
From The Eponymous Pickle
SAS Pushes Business Intelligence to Mobile
A very good direction we are seeing as key Business Intelligence vendors are supporting mobile. You should be able to take your intelligence to wherever your data...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Breaking news: HTML+CSS is Turing complete
A programming language is Turing complete if it equivalent to a Turing machine. In practice, it means that any algorithm can be implemented. Most programming languages...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Location Based Marketing
In Adage: a good overview of what marketers should think about when considering the use of location based services.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Remote Food
3D Printers creating food. It appears there is still much to do here before this becomes practical or very appetizing. Yet the direction is clear, digitally...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF DD Describes His Experience
Keith Marzullo, a Division Director within the NSF’s CISE Directorate, recently sat down to describe his experiences working at the National Science Foundation....
From Schneier on Security